DO407 – Automation with Ansible

Overview

Automation with Ansible I (DO407) is designed for system administrators who are intending to use Ansible for automation, configuration, and management. Learn how to install and configure Ansible, create and run playbooks to configure systems, and learn to manage inventories.

Through hands-on labs, students will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, centrally manage playbooks and schedule recurring executions. Students will also learn to manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault, use Ansible in a DevOps environment with Vagrant.

Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts.

Use Ansible to run ad-hoc commands and playbooks to automate tasks.

Write effective Ansible playbooks.

Protect encrypted data needed for tasks with Ansible Vault.

Use Ansible Tower to more easily manage enterprise Ansible deployments.

Work with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant in a DevOps environment.

Audience

System and cloud administrators who need to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and other IT needs.